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Improvement in Refining and Ageing Liquors.
Patent for improvement in refining and ageing liquors, including an illustration. The process includes expelling air from distilled liquors, heating them to a boiling point and then cooling them in a waterbath, through the use of a closed, air-tight vessel surrounded by an open water-vessel.
Date:
May 10, 1870
Creator:
Gilman, Samuel H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Turpentine-Stills.
Patent for improvement in turpentine distillation and purification with bleaching and refinement.
Date:
May 6, 1873
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Steaming and Cleansing Barrels, & c.
Patent for an improved apparatus for steaming and cleaning barrels for the reception of resin, turpentine, oils, molasses, sirups, and other like liquids.
Date:
May 5, 1873
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Resin Boxes and Coolers.
Patent for improvement in receptacle for oils, molasses, or thick liquid that permit liquid to be surrounded by steam or water and changeable temperature.
Date:
May 13, 1873
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bleaching Resins.
Patent for a process to "bleach, clarify, and refine the commonest and lowest grade of resin, and such is now known to the trade as black resin, as to produce therefrom, by a cheap and simple means or process, an article as pure as extra pale, or resin which is the product of the virgin dip, and which for use in all the arts where the finest quality of resin is desirable or required, is equally as valuable." (Lines 14-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 27, 1873
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mechanical Movements.
Patent for a specific arrangement of a single-cylinder engine and two shafts with connecting rods that can be used to drive boat propellers.
Date:
May 5, 1874
Creator:
Franklin, Robert Morris
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Presses.
Patent for the improvement of cotton presses to bale cotton and other materials, including illustrations.
Date:
May 12, 1874
Creator:
Brown, Bartlett W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroying Compounds.
Patent for "a mixture of the arseniate of soda and water, or arseniate of soda, dextrine, and water, prepared in certain proportions of the respective ingredients, for the purpose of destroying cotton-worms." (Lines 7-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 19, 1874
Creator:
Braman, John D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Box and Bale Hooks.
Patent for "a guard or shield, of leather or other equivalent material, combined with the handle or shank of the hook used for turning or otherwise handling bales or boxes, &c., to prevent the hands from rubbing or pressing against the bale or box, whereby the are often injured." (Lines 6-12) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 26, 1874
Creator:
Knight, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pipe and Bar Cutters
Patent for a new and improved pipe and bar cutter, which cuts metal and steel. This design is simple, convient, and effective, including illustration.
Date:
May 21, 1877
Creator:
Astall, Jesse
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an improved bale-tie which is to be used especially with cotton, includes instructions and illustration.
Date:
May 28, 1878
Creator:
Arnold, Lloyd
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spurs.
Patent for improvements in spurs that permanently attaches the spur to the boot, including illustrations.
Date:
May 20, 1879
Creator:
Brown, John S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mailing-Box.
Patent for a mailing box with curves and grooves to fit the cover and securing string with illustrations and assembly instructions.
Date:
May 11, 1880
Creator:
Sabin, Chauncey Brewer
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable Grater and Slicer.
Patent for an improvement on vegetable graters or slicers. The design allows for more efficient cutting of the vegetables and allows for gravity to feed the vegetables through the slicer and avoiding injury to the operator. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1880
Creator:
Weitzel, Jacob F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition For Roofing And Paving.
Patent for a process "to produce a compound which is strong, tenacious, and pliable, which will not be affected by climatic changes, and which will resist the corrosive action of acids and alkalies; and to this end my invention consists in a compound composed of asphaltum, pine-tar, and oxide of iron, as will more fully hereinafter appear.” (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions.
Date:
May 9, 1882
Creator:
Lee, Archibald K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Circular Railroad or Round About.
Patent for novel improvements on circular railroads, and also to means for propelling a turn-table on which the carriages are secured.
Date:
August 22, 1882
Creator:
Sturm, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "has for its objects to provide a coupling-pin which can be reversed when one end becomes worn, to provide a reversible pin of novel construction, which is adapted to automatically engage the ordinary coupling-link, and to provide a coupling-pin of novel construction, with a device for holding it elevated when it is not desired to engage a coupling-link" (lines 10-18).
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Fowler, Joseph C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Laundry-Iron
Patent for improvements to heating and use of irons used for laundry.
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Pedder, James Nagel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Split Switch
Patent for a split switch, with illustrations. The "invention relates to split switches; and the object of our invention is to provide a switch which will be normally in condition to prevent a train from running on the main track from the siding, and yet always keep the main track in condition for the rapid movement of trains, and at the same time allow the shunting of a train from the main track to the side track" (lines 16-24).
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Crowley, John Henry & Temple, Bernard Moore
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Railway Steam Car Brake
Patent for improvement in railway car brake by adding a steam actuating device attached to the locomotive.
Date:
May 22, 1883
Creator:
Walker, Fred B. & Lauder, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Blind Slat Adjuster.
Patent for a new and improved blind adjuster. This design consists in "[a] shutter-stop consisting of a slotted bar linked to the end of the slat-actuating rod of a shutter, in combination with a plate having a spur on one side and a screw-threaded stud on the other, a washer, and a thumb-nut" (lines 93-97).
Date:
May 4, 1886
Creator:
Lewis, Paulinus Aloysius
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting off the Soiled Butts of Grain Stalks.
Patent for a new and improved cutting machine for grain stalks. This design consists in a "table slotted in its middle part and slotted and recessed at or near one edge, the parallel endless bundle-carrying chains working in said slots and having arms, the chain-wheels, the shafts thereof and their supports, the circular saw in the recess at the edge of the table, the mandrel and the gage-plate" (lines 98-105).
Date:
May 3, 1887
Creator:
Becker, Lothar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Swing.
Patent for a new and improved swing. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the two folding frames, provided with jointed braces, of the horizontal cross-bars secured to said frames, the swinging arms pivoted to said bars and also to the car, cross-bars secured to these arms, [and] the curved levers" (lines 95-100). Said curved levers are hinged to "the cross-bars, [and] the crossed ropes or chains [are] connecting the short arms of said levers to the cross-bars, and the pull-cords [are] attached to the long arms of said levers and [are] extended to the seats of the said car" (lines 1-5).
Date:
May 10, 1887
Creator:
Rigby, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Lock.
Patent for improvement upon a combination-lock.
Date:
May 1, 1888
Creator:
Bergman, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History